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FCC's telephone-dereg rules finally unveiled

By Bill McConnell -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/25/2003 6:00:00 AM

As expected, competing broadband providers can no longer force regional telephone monopolies to lease access for digital-subscriber-line broadband service, according to the long-awaited text of telephone deregulation released by the Federal Communications Commission.

The rules, certain to be appealed, were approved in February after GOP commissioner Kevin Martin convinced the two agency Democrats to outvote Republican chairman Michael Powell.

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